But that's no longer true. He began changing his politics after the March 2000 primary election.
The New Face of Environmentalism
Van Jones renounced his rowdy black nationalism on the way toward becoming an influential leader of the new progressive politics.
By Eliza Strickland
November 2, 2005
East Bay Express
Jones' fixation on solidarity dates from this experience. He took an objective look at the movement's effectiveness and decided that the changes he was seeking were actually getting farther away. Not only did the left need to be more unified, he decided, it might also benefit from a fundamental shift in tactics. "I realized that there are a lot of people who are capitalists -- shudder, shudder -- who are really committed to fairly significant change in the economy, and were having bigger impacts than me and a lot of my friends with our protest signs," he said.
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